一、Installing Maven 3.3.3 on Ubuntu 15.04
Prerequisite:- JDK 1.5 or above, JAVA_HOME set in environment variable.
Here are the steps to install Maven 3.3.3 on Ubuntu 15.04
1. Download Apache Maven 3.3.3 binary from repository using the following command
wget http://mirrors.sonic.net/apache/maven/maven-3/3.3.3/binaries/apache-maven-3.3.3-bin.tar.gz
2. Unzip the binary with tar
tar -zxf apache-maven-3.3.3-bin.tar.gz
3. Move the application directory to /usr/local
sudo cp -R apache-maven-3.3.3 /usr/local
4. Make a soft link in /usr/bin for universal access of mvn
sudo ln -s /usr/local/apache-maven-3.3.3/bin/mvn /usr/bin/mvn
5. Verifify mvn installation
mvn --version
Apache Maven 3.3.3 (12a6b3acb947671f09b81f49094c53f426d8cea1; 2014-12-14T17:29:23+00:00)
Maven home: /usr/local/apache-maven-3.2.5
Java version: 1.7.0_80, vendor: Oracle Corporation
Java home: /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-oracle/jre
Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: UTF-8
OS name: "linux", version: "3.13.0-48-generic", arch: "amd64", family: "unix"
二、Install Maven Plugin for Eclipse
You may tried to install Maven plugin for eclipse and failed. The problem may be caused by the version. So to solve the problem, you can download a latest version of eclipse. The following shows how I install maven plugin for eclipse under Ubuntu. For Windows platform, it should be the same.
Download Eclipse Kepler
Download latest version of eclipse from: https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/.
Select “Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers”.
Install Maven Eclipse Plugin
Go to http://www.eclipse.org/m2e/download/, and select the latest m2e release. The URL is http://download.eclipse.org/technology/m2e/releases.
Go to Eclipse “Help” -> “Install New Software …”, and put the correct url. It should looks like the following:
install-maven-eclipse-plugin
Click “Next” to complete.